Comments on: Revealed: The Secret of the Sperm's Wild Dash to the Egghttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/07/revealed-the-secret-of-the-sperms-wild-dash-to-the-egg/
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: Chris the Pragmatisthttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/07/revealed-the-secret-of-the-sperms-wild-dash-to-the-egg/#comment-16029
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:15:09 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16029Little proton booster rockets for sperm and if triggered too soon sperm run out of fuel. Pretty cool research if you ask me and yes I see future advancements in contraception due to this discovery. That they were amazed that female enzymes or hormones triggered the reaction to swim faster by sperm is a bit silly. The sperm had to react because of something, so it was only logical that the trigger came from the source of our little soldiers affections. The closer he gets the faster he swims because the egg is chemically beckoning to him!!!

Now, what may be a bit preposterous but wouldn’t surprise me is if geneticists and scientists tried to isolate certain sperm from reaching the egg that they have determined to be unwanted (something in the DNA pattern of the sperm reveals a defect of some sort such as Down’s Syndrom, in the male genome etc). I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of such research coming out eventually, as far fetched as it may seem.

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:36:53 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16028Ian. What is wrong with the fact that this could cause advancements in contraception? It would be awesome if there was a way for a ‘male pill’ to exist, without it actually being hormonal and thus potentially damaging male fertility in the end, or causing moobies or something. Men would be more likely to adopt something that has no physiological side effects but instead makes their sperm too lazy to get anywhere while they are using it.

For women to finally be given a break from being responsible for contraception would be really good and it is only fair, too.

Just because new life can be created, does not mean that it should be. People have the right to determine if they want to have children, and they have a right to have sex only for the sake of intimacy, and pleasure. Sperm and eggs are only alive in the way an amoeba is alive. Until they fuse, they are not even a complete cell, so in fact an amoeba is more sophisticated in a way.

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:59:51 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16027Mark, it’s a catch-22 by Uncle Sam; they outlawed it and put it as a Schedule 1 substance which means ‘high potential for abuse and no medicinal value,’ which means they refuse to accept any valid studies showing it in fact does have medicinal properties.

It was outlawed to replace outlawed slave labor with prison labor. It’s to keep minorities suppressed.

What dangers? Does Yahagi have any proof? Because the AMA fought outlawing cannabis until Harry Anslinger started having doctors arrested after they defended this wonderful plant, causing them to drop their support of this medicine. Recently however they have renewed their interest in having tests done to show it’s validity as an all-natural medicine, as opposed to the synthetic chemicals Big Pharma creates in labs.

It’s not a war on (some) drugs it’s a war on minorities to replace outlawed slave labor with prison labor, read http://tinyurl.com/1mn

“Well, there it was, you didn’t have to look another foot as you went from state to state right on the floor of the state legislature. And so what was the genesis for the early state marijuana laws in the Rocky Mountain and southwestern areas of this country? It wasn’t hostility to the drug, it was hostility to the newly arrived Mexican community that used it.”

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:55:14 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16026Amazing! This incredible series of events, makes me realise just how awesome new life is.

It’s a great shame then that one of the applications of this research should be contraception.

]]>By: Bryanhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/07/revealed-the-secret-of-the-sperms-wild-dash-to-the-egg/#comment-16025
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:33:35 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16025Interesting. Um.. Mark, I’m all for Cannabis legalization and you’re right.. along w/ millions of others that Cannabis is a miracle drug the government doesn’t know how to make money off of in all Cannabis’s variety of commerce, so instead they stick w/ Big Pharm cause they can count on that money regardless of that fact Big Pharm is often placibo’s or damaging to the body…and while we humans should have the right to put in our bodies what we prefer, which can be safer. Yeah, the government’s looking out for.. us…

Oh, and Mark, while Cannabis make actually have a positive effect on the male reproductive system (MMJ RESEARCH would HELP…bump FED.GOV.)This article referred to Marijuana possibly contributing to “slow swimmers”.

(And since anandamide is an “endocannabinoid,” this may explain why male marijuana smokers can have fertility problems–the cannabinoids found in marijuana may mimic the effect of the natural substance. Dr Kirichok said: “Marijuana likely activates sperm prematurely, leaving them burnt out in a matter of hours” [BBC].)

However, it would appear that Cannabis could perhaps be a natural PIECE OF THE PUZZLE towards Birth Control. If FED.GOV. would allow further RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT, we could very well find that Cannabis could be a natural form of Birth Control for men to administer, even w/out “stoned” sensations..
That’s right.. Big Pharm and their con⋅tra⋅cep⋅tive’s would struggle and go down.
JustMyOpinion
A Natural MALE con⋅tra⋅cep⋅tive?? in coordination w/ unexpected safe sex mishap..

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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:32:11 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16024Sounds like if you have slow swimmers try smoking some marijuana. I don’t see how we can keep a plant that has so much to do with are bodies as far as cannabinoid receptors, but under federal law it cannot be even researched for some odd reason maybe money is to blame…
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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:36:51 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9991#comment-16023Maybe NASA can use this technique too. Proton drive rockets!
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